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From Park College's 1901 yearbook.
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"Will do nothing but spend money." From The Duluth Herald, 1912.
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From Swarthmore College's 1911 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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From Red Herring, April 1994.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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Meet you in Goobertown! From Youth's Companion, 1888.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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"Modern popery is ancient paganism." From Progressive Thinker, 1906.
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From State Female Normal School's 1901 yearbook.
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"Two men and a hat: a little gaiety." From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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From our review of Magnificent Milo, written and illustrated by Joan Balfour Payne (1958).
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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unearths some literary gems.
The Pinkled Frinft, and other snippets from The Smart Set, 1917:
***[Shaw's play Getting Married] reminds one of a Wilde epigram rewritten by Dostoievsky. [Nathan]***Anyone can write a play but...it takes genius to sit through one. [Nathan; not sure if this quip is original to him]***all its winsome et ceteras [Nathan]***Miss Cather and Mrs. Watts have yet to strike twelve. [Mencken]***ideas rolled out like noodles [Mencken]***the grave and literal-minded critical whisker [Nathan]***Bonuses:Nathan uses "jabberwock" as a transitive verb (something a playwright does to the audience by entertaining them with playful nonsense).He also uses the adverb "Johnsonianly" (i.e., in the manner of Dr. Johnson).[And the same day I encountered that, I subsequently encountered the assertion, in an unrelated book from 1921, that Fanny Burney wrote "a kind of debased Johnsonese."]He describes a play called /The Basker/ as a "monocled dawdle"Notes on a couple of the attachments:1. Re. "more this anon": This sentence, article, and entire *issue* appear to break off in the middle of a word! Mencken is both the author and co-editor, so in a way he's self-empting. (And I note that I saw no evidence of the sentence or article picking up again in the subsequent issue.)2. I've included the tobacco ad simply because of its over-the-top off-topicness in confusing itself with a coffee ad. (I subsequently saw another one in the series, with some other fragrant non-tobacco substance featured.)
3. Apparently The Pinkled Frinft's title has a subtitle that reads, "Don't Wrinkle Your Nose When You Pronounce It."
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From St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing's 1942 yearbook.
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| [Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost
sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of
Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then
flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images
we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.] |
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""In the vain pursuit of this and that endeavor and dispute" (Omar Khayyam). From Oberlin College's 1910 yearbook.
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From Purple Parrot, 1922.
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